Re: A few Machines crash when "no default audio driver available"

[Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>]

Cc: mainainters for "Overall Audio backends"
Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> writes:

> On Thu, 9 Jul 2026 at 12:44, Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> I stumbled over ARM machine musicpal, PPC machines pegasos1, pegasos2,
>> and MIPS machine fuloong2e crashes.
>>
>> I run them like this:
>>
>> $ qemu-system-aarch64 -M musicpal -nodefaults -S -display none -monitor stdio
>
>> Died when device_set_realized() tried to propagate a "no default audio
>> driver available" error to &error_abort.
>
> Is this something we want to have be a possibility the devices
> have to cope with? Can we have the "ignores all audio data"
> backend be always available instead?

There's plenty of precedence for /dev/null-like backends.

> Otherwise every audio device needs to cope with "there is no
> audio backend available" and implement "do nothing with the
> audio data" itself.

Yes.